Goal-oriented Decision Modeling: A Position Paper

The Decision Modeling Notation (DMN) has been proposed by OMG as a means to model decisions, such as those that can take place in business processes, thus, for instance, supporting business analysts to analyze them and possibly derive specification for their automation. We are interested to investigate if and how DMN could be complemented by goal oriented (GO) modelling with the purpose of making more explicit how decisions can affect intentional elements, e.g. their impact on satisfying or not goals, as well as allowing a more concrete documentation of decisions, together with their rationale. In this paper, we introduce a method that allows combining i* and DMN models, discuss challenges and opportunities we identify while developing it